“…Studies highlighting the use of different areas during the animal´s life cycle, suggest that environmental variables, especially temperature, influence the habitat selection of several caridean shrimp species: Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758) (Spaargaren, 2000;Siegel et al, 2005), Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1837 (Bilgin et al, 2008), Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837 (Janas & Spicer, 2008), and N. schmitti (see Almeida et al, 2011). The increase in abundance of E. oplophoroides occurred in spring, coinciding with a decrease in temperature (Fig.…”